Verse 32. _I SAW THE SPIRIT DESCENDING_, c.] See the notes on Matthew 3:16, Matthew 3:17....
BARE RECORD - Gave testimony. I SAW THE SPIRIT ... - See the notes at Matthew 3:16....
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE BAPTISTS WITNESS TO HIMSELF. The baptism of Jesus has apparently taken place. John points to Him as the greater one of whom he had spoken. His own work of baptism, which has not been described but...
JOHN BARE RECORD. Gave witness to the fact, either at this or some subsequent time. I SAW THE SPIRIT DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN LIKE. DOVE. See Matthew 3:16. At this time, as Jesus came up out of the wa...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
So John bore his witness. "With my own eyes, he said, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven, as it might have been a dove, and the Spirit remained upon him. And I did not know him. But it was he w...
BARE RECORD. bare witness. Compare John 1:19, and see note on John 1:7. SAW. have beheld. Greek. _theaomai._ App-133. THE SPIRIT. See App-101. HEAVES. Singular, without Art. See note on Matthew 6:9;...
_bare record_ Better, _bare_ WITNESS; comp. John 1:7_; John 1:15; John 1:19; John 1:34_. _I saw_ Better, _I_ HAVE BEHELD, or contemplate
The Testimony of the Baptist 19 28. His Testimony to the Deputation from Jerusalem This section describes a crisis in the Baptist's ministry. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin....
32. ἘΜΑΡΤ. The Evangelist insists again and again on this aspect of the Baptist: he bears WITNESS to the Messiah; 7, 8, 15, 19, 34. ΤΕΘΈΑΜΑΙ. I HAVE BEHELD (John 1:14; John 1:38; 1 John 4:12;...
THE TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO THE PEOPLE...
19–37. _The Testimony of the Baptist_, (α) to the deputation from Jerusalem, (β) to the people, (γ) to Andrew and John, John 1:31-51. _The Testimony of the Disciples:_ John 2:1-11 _The Testimony of th...
VER 32. AND JOHN BORE RECORD, SAYING, I SAW THE SPIRIT DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN LIKE A DOVE, AND IT ABODE UPON HIM. 33. AND I KNEW HIM NOT: BUT HE THAT SENT ME TO BAPTIZE WITH WATER, THE SAME SAID UNTO...
_THE ETERNAL WORD WAS LIFTED UP BY JOHN -- (JOHN 1:19-34)_ John was a witness who lifted up God's Eternal Word. (John 1:19-28) John the Baptist was "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make str...
ΈΜΑΡΤΫ́ΡΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ (G3140) свидетельствовать. Обобщ. _aor._ описывает свидетельство Иоанна об Иисусе как Мессии вообще, ΤΕΘΈΑΜΑΙ _perf. ind. med. (dep.), см._ John 1:14. Терми...
THE BAPTISTS EVIDENCE FOR THE LAMB OF GOD _Text 1:29-34_ 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world! 30 This is he...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:19-34 Following our usual custom, we begin by submitting an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we have:— 1. The Jews’ inquiry of John, a...
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. AND JOHN BARE RECORD, SAYING, I SAW, [ tetheamai (G2300)] - or 'I have seen' "the Spirit d...
Government and education are still the panaceas proposed by the majority of priest-craft. But John wisely withdraws himself from their notice, and as the Voice, heralds the coming of the Messiah Himse...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
In these verses the Evangelist again makes prominent the solemn witness of John, giving the process by which conviction had come to his own mind....
I SAW. — Better, _I have seen,_ or _beheld._ The vision is in its result ever present, and is all-conclusive evidence. (Comp. the words in their historic setting, Matthew 3:16, Note.)...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
_The witness of John based on the sign at the baptism of Jesus_....
_The witness of John and its result_....
τεθέαμαι τὸ πνεῦμα … ἐπʼ αὐτόν. “I have seen the Spirit coming down like a dove out of heaven, and it remained upon Him.” “I have seen, perfect, in reference to the sign divinely intimated to him, in...
WITNESS BORNE TO THE SON OF GOD John 1:29-34 John's description of Christ gave answer to Isaac's inquiry, Genesis 22:7. Let us not narrow the extent of the gospel. By the grace of God Jesus tasted de...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
(14) And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. (14) Christ is proved to be the Son of God by the coming down of the Holy Spirit, by the...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
THE GIFT MADE TO JESUS IN THE BAPTISM. Vv. 32, 33, suggest an important question: Did Jesus really _receive_ anything at His baptism? _Meyer_ denies this, alleging that this idea has no support in our...
VER. 32. “ _And John bore witness saying: I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove, and it abode upon Him._ ” This declaration is introduced with a peculiar solemnity by the words: “ _And John bore...
FIRST SECTION: 1:19-37. THE TESTIMONIES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. These testimonies are three in number and were given on three successive days (see John 1:29; John 1:35, “ _the next day_).” These three da...
II. SECOND TESTIMONY: VV. 29-34. How can we comprehend the fact that the deputies of the Sanhedrim left John without asking him who the person was of whom he intended to speak? Either they did not car...
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. (31) And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizi...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
32._I saw the Spirit, descending like a dove. _This is not a literal but a figurative mode of expression; for with what eyes could he _see the Spirit _? But as the _dove _was a certain and infallible...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
AND JOHN BARE RECORD,.... The same day that he said the above things, and at the same time: SAYING, I SAW THE SPIRIT; that is, of God, as is said in Matthew 3:16 and which Nonnus here expresses; and...
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. Ver. 32. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 3:16 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Mar 1:10 _"_...
_This is he_, &c. I now point out to you the very person of whom I formerly said, _After me cometh a man which is preferred before me_ Being incomparably greater and more excellent than I; _for he was...
AND JOHN BARE RECORD, SAYING, I SAW THE SPIRIT DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN LIKE A DOVE, AND IT ABODE UPON HIM....
John points to the Lamb of God:...
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
29-36 John saw Jesus coming to him, and pointed him out as the Lamb of God. The paschal lamb, in the shedding and sprinkling of its blood, the roasting and eating of its flesh, and all the other circ...
Saith John, According to the revelation which I had, when I received my extraordinary commission to baptize, so it fell out to me, I did see, when he was baptized, the heaven opening, and a representa...
Origen Against Celsus Book I And I knew Him not; but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said to me, Upon whom you will see the Spirit descending, and abiding on Him, the same is He that...
John 1:32 And G2532 John G2491 witness G3140 (G5656) saying G3004 (G5723) G3754 saw G2300 ...
‘And John bore witness saying, “I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of Heaven, and it abode on Him. And I did not know Him. But He Who sent me to baptise with water, He said to me, on wh...
JOHN THE BAPTISER'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS AND THE CALLING OF DISCIPLES (JOHN 1:19). The portrayal of John the Baptiser by the writer is in interesting contrast to the John the Baptiser portrayed in the o...
We enter here upon the second great division of the Gospel, extending from John 1:19 to John 2:11, and containing the presentation of Jesus, as He takes His place in the field of human history and, al...
John 1:32. AND JOHN BARE WITNESS, SAYING. I HAVE BEHELD THE SPIRIT DESCENDING. The effect of what the Baptist had seen had remained, and still remains, with him in all its power: ‘I _have_ beheld.' A...
BARE WITNESS (εμαρτυρησεν). First aorist active indicative of μαρτυρεω. Another specimen of John's witness to the Messiah (John 1:7; John 1:15; John 1:19; John 1:29;...
John 1:19 The Ministry of John the Baptist. From the ministry of John the Baptist we may learn I. That when Jesus is about to visit a community in His saving power, His coming is generally preceded...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
John 1:29. _The next day_ This chapter is a record of the events that occurred on different days. Sometimes God does great things in a single day; one extraordinary day may have more in it than a hun...
John 1:29. _The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of god, which taketh away the sin of the world._ John lost no time. He had no sooner discovered the Saviour than...
John 1:19. _And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ._ «I...
John 1:19. And this in the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they...
John 1:15. _John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me._ He was not before John in the order of hum...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
32-34. I SAW THE SPIRIT COME DOWN LIKE A DOVE. John declares what he saw with his own eyes! See notes on Matthew 3:16. God had told John what the _sign_ would be to identify the Messiah. John says tha...
_This is He._ THE REDEEMER’S IDENTIFICATION I. IN HIS WORK as the Lamb of God. 1. ‘The object offered in sacrifice. The Lamb of God applies to Christ (1) in His personal character. (2) In His sac...
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
PART II. (A.) Chapter S John 1:19 to John 4:54 I. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AS LIGHT AMONG THOSE PREPARED TO RECEIVE HIM (John 1:19) 1. The testimony of John the Baptist: (1) he is not the Chri...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
John 5:32; Luke 3:22; Mark 1:10; Matthew 3:16...